The federal Conservative government is being coy over media reports that Nigeria's anti-gay law prompted Canada to pull the plug on plans for a visit by Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan next month.

The right to protest disturbs and disrupts. It is meant to. It disturbs ordinary people who may be delayed, inconvenienced or unable to do business as usual. CCLA's Nathalie Des Rosiers asks, when this happens, what should be done?

Sources say the government will agree to amend some provisions in Bill C-31, including one that calls for "irregular arrivals" to be subject to automatic detention for up to a year without review of their case.

A Canada.com article asks questions that arise in the wake of the Conservatives' introduction of a law that will allow police to monitor Canadians' websurfing and track people with electronic surveillance.

In 2010, the chair of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal dismissed a human rights complaint against the government from two First Nations organizations. Now, the tribunal's decision is coming before the Federal Court for judicial review.

A landmark human-rights case, which began more than two decades ago, came to a close Wednesday with a three-year initiative by the Ontario government to identify and eradicate systematic racism in its prison system.